mcclung

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by mcclung 2y ago
It kills me sometimes that I can't find my AD&D books. I haven't played in decades but I just like to look at them.
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by mcclung 4y ago
> You see claims like this all the time but they are so blatantly ahistorical its fascinating. > No one but white men could vote in the U.S. until the early 1900s when women were given the right to vote. > And pretty much only whit
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by mcclung 5y ago
I have assumed for awhile that they were either drones from an adversary or, in some cases, from our own CIA. An extraterrestrial origin is going to require more proof. Easier for me to believe it is China or Russia.
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by mcclung 5y ago
I can remember way back around 1990 being told that waterfall was mostly a bad idea, and few shops really followed it. Rapid prototyping was agile back then. We were shown how to produce flow charts and static call diagrams in Software E
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by mcclung 5y ago
First thing I thought was "press hit." ( http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html ) I've been expecting that certain groups (people who own commercial real estate, for example), were going to want to us all bac
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by mcclung 6y ago
Thanks I hadn't seen that one.
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by mcclung 6y ago
If you're interested in planes like this, I found "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed" a good read.
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by mcclung 6y ago
Sounds like CentOS Stream will bring the pain to users and admins. Going forward, the answer to every stability question will be "maybe you should go buy Redhat". I had a bad feeling about the CentOS project when Redhat became in
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by mcclung 6y ago
If you use open source software long enough, you will eventually be disappointed in a design decision. In this case, it was a big surprise when a tool I'd been using since the early 1990s suddenly changed its output with absolutely no
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by mcclung 6y ago
I patch that behavior out of the GNU core utils on my Gentoo machines, and set the quoting style properly everywhere else. This is one of the worst behavior changes ever to come out of GNU. It should never have been the default.
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by mcclung 7y ago
> Very neat to see it on the storage side, and something I don't think anyone could fathom back in the spinning disk days. Seagate had a product called Kinetic that was an Ethernet-connected key-value spinning disk. We had a 1U box
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by mcclung 13y ago
Sticking to Gentoo for my personal systems (for many reasons, not just this issue). Slackware was my OS of choice once upon a time (there weren't many choices back then, though.)
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by mcclung 13y ago
It's getting harder and harder to find a distro where systemd isn't a hard requirement. I am hoping Debian will keep the choice of sysvinit available.
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by mcclung 13y ago
I had a lady next to me start to drown and grab me in a pool when I was getting my diving certification. Despite having a supply of air, wetsuit, fins and buoyancy control device on, she got that drowning sensation when her respirator came
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by mcclung 13y ago
I know a guy that started cutting himself once with a small pocket knife. He just went back to his office and lost it. He was obviously asked to leave, as he was upsetting the rest of the employees. I saw him a couple of years later and
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by mcclung 14y ago
I'm suddenly glad they didn't have github when I was in college. I found some old printouts from my college days recently, and I wrote some terrible, terrible C and assembly for the VAX. Writing bad stuff is how I learn though, so that's O
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by mcclung 14y ago
Remember BlueSteel? I'm using it right now. Still use the latest Enlightenment DR16 on all my Linux and Solaris boxes. It does everything I need a window manager to do.
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by mcclung 14y ago
The first non-ad result for me is mail.aol.com, as it should be.
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by mcclung 14y ago
Reading the original source completely changes everything. Thank you.
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by mcclung 14y ago
The only really interesting thing about this is the claim that it was weapons grade uranium. I wonder if they mean the same thing other people do when they say that (for me, 90+% U-235), or if the mention of californium means it was blende
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by mcclung 15y ago
The Apollo command module orbit was approximately ~110 kilometers (~60 nautical miles) from the surface. The initial TLI leaves it with a highly elliptical orbit but this is corrected before the LM descent.
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by mcclung 15y ago
Super. My gentoo boxes are 1.8.2, and are broken as expected. $ ln -s /usr/bin/sudo ./%s $ ./%s -D9 [some debug output with garbage] Segmentation fault $ Bug is here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401533 Looks li
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by mcclung 15y ago
There is advertising on the Internet? I almost forgot. Advertising got a really bad reputation with a lot of people, and they are unlikely to turn off their armor for anyone. If you are having a problem with the relatively small community
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by mcclung 15y ago
This video clearly takes place after all the undesirables have been sent to the Off World Colonies.
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by mcclung 15y ago
I just noticed today that my searches for "ipadm" return something relevant, rather than assuming that I meant "ipad", and forcing me to confirm that I did actually mean what I typed, which I think was the case just a couple of days ago.
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by mcclung 15y ago
My first was an Apple IIe at age 12. I was thinking the same thing.
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by mcclung 15y ago
Even though amazon.com is all on EC2 and capacity is demand driven, someone is still buying servers and has some capacity overhead, right? They've just shifted the spend from the amazon.com business unit to the AWS business unit (assuming
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by mcclung 16y ago
That's funny. I followed your lead... but I was less polite.
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by mcclung 16y ago
I enjoyed reading it however. I will now mercilessly mock RIM along with you.
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by mcclung 16y ago
When I finally made the switch from a 4:3 panel to something widescreen, I had to find some that were 16:10.

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